I guess it became trendy to late post you work. Yes, 2018 was kind of a rush year,but totally worthfull, full of projects and constructive outcomes.
Remember that awesome project that focuses on our #cultural#legacy in Timisoara, mentioned in one of my older post?
#HeritageofTimisoara 2018 takes one of the most interesting neighbourhood - #Iosefin
Being born and raised in this neighbourhood this building always had a special vibe so I illustrated Albert Schott Palace as a fading memory, from how I new it to the degrading state it is in today.
You can find and share several illustrations on this link below.
https://heritageoftimisoara.ro/ilustratii
#heritageoftimisoara#iosefin#timisoara#prinbanat#postcards#draw#WorthIt#building

*** THE BANALIZATION OF “CULTURAL EQUALITY” *** You're not a citizen of your town, country or state any more. Now you're #global , telematic, mobile, an Earthling. #Cultural differences are coincidences of developmental isolation but this makes them no less valuable, and one is not better than the other, just #different . Yet there is this mask - a politically correct global persona constructed in pretence of championing #equality , but there is something sinister there - a tendency to accept all only at the price of banalization and asimilation, a modern way of colonizing - not necessarily the soil of a certain #culture but it's cultural space and way of thinking. Nietzsche already warned against rage and grudges masked as a fight for equality. There is an underlying motif of leaning towards tyranny and totalitarianism where fake kindness and compassion have devised a melting pot scheme where the original culture becomes a sort of tableau vivant, an echo. It is something fit to be a silent exponat in the museum of cultures. Out of a paranoid fear of difference and opposition we make it a global drive-through safari of quasi cultural trinkets with already established routes, enclosing the diversity into a safe membrane where it can’t seep with any real potency and #power into the mainstream narrative of the world. We build a freeze frame made for our own entertainment and cosmopolite phantasies, a remnant of a culture that has no more freedom to move than a mouse caught on a sticky trap – still alive but paralyzed and impotent. Buying a miniature Eiffel tower doesn't mean you’ve gotten to known Paris, its people and cultural collage; it just means you can boast to your friends you’ve been to Paris even if you never ever strayed from the tour guide’s bosom, buying a yoga mat doesn’t make you a yogi, any more than putting some leaves in your hair makes you a tree. Cultures are to be experienced not window shopped.
#looxa#yoga#yogisofig#yogaeveryday#recycled#yogaeverydamnday#instayoga#eco#journal#yogi#asana#yogaeverywhere#yogapositions#yogapractice#worldyoga#christmasgifts#gifts#christmas#Xmas#ashtanga

DM TO PURCHASE
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
Synopsis:
An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.
It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon.
But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family saga, a riviting social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large.
#thebookbox#bookstagram#ebook#fiction#bookobsessed#bookclub#booklovers#tbbwinter#winterread#wintervibes#historical#cultural#newyork

“The Palestinian Museum’s mission of wresting back the #narratives , material #culture and #memories that have been so crudely taken away from the #Palestinian people is a reminder of an integral element of #decolonisation ...the Palestinian Museum is ultimately striving to seize control over its destiny not only from its oppressor Israel but also from hegemonic understandings and practices of statehood, peoplehood, space, time and #architecture . For that, it should be celebrated not only as a triumphant moment in the #cultural#history of the Palestinian people, but also as a genuinely emancipatory moment in the grand project of epistemic decolonisation, for Palestinians and for other #colonised peoples everywhere.” Thank you Hanan Toukan
Read the article at Radical Philosophy: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-palestinian-museum
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#palmuseum#palestine#article#art#museum

【RECAP of 2018】
- SUG Mentor Training Camp -
To prepare new SUG Mentors for their duties in the new Residential Year, a three-day training camp was organized by SHRLO from 4-6 June 2018. Other than the typical games that helped SUG Mentors to learn the essential communication skills with their mentees, they also worked together to prepare their own dinner.
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On the second day, they went canyoning in Ma Tai Stream, Ma On Shan. Through this physical challenge in the wilderness, they learnt to be accommodating and supportive to each other when achieving a common goal. The tiring yet rewarding camp has definitely delivered some promising student leaders in the hall community!
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Full Recap of 2018: check out the link in the bio!
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#hkust#reslife#trainingcamp#halllife#universitylife#canyoning#cultural#nuture#internationalization#curiosity#ecoawareness#firstyearexperience